The Persian Gulf War 2
On August 2, 1990 Iraqi military forces invaded and occupied the small Arab state of Kuwait. The order was given by Iraqi dictatorial president Saddam Hussein. His aim was apparently to take control of Kuwait's oil reserves ( despite its small size Kuwait is a huge oil producer ; it has about ten per cent of the world's oil reserves). Iraq accused Kuwait, and also the United Arab Emirates, of breaking agreements that limit oil productions in the middle east. According to Saddam Hussein, this brought down world oil prices severely and caused financial loss of billions of dollars in Iraq's annual revenue. Saddam Hussein had the nearly hopeless task of justifying the invasion. He plead the fact that Kuwait had been a part of the ottoman province of basra, a city in the south of Iraq. However, the ottoman province collapsed after World War I and today's Iraqi borders were blunder in a bid to justify the illegal invasion. Bagdad, the capitol of Iraq, a namely recognized Kuwaiti independence in 1963. Furthermore, Hussein claimed that Kuwait had illegally pumped oil from the Iraqi oil field of Rumaila and otherwise conspired to reduce Iraq's essential oil income.By invading Kuwait, Iraq succededin surprising the entire world. T
The ground war began at 8:00pm on February 23 and lasted exactally 100 hours. This phase featured a massivly succesful outflanking movement of the Iraqi forces. Schwarzkopf used a deseptive manuvor by deploying a large number of forces as if to launch a large amphibious landing. The Iraqi's apperantly anticipated that they also would be attacked frontally and had heavly fortified those defensive positions. Schwarzkopf instead moved the bulk of his forces west and north in a major use of helicopters, attacking the Iraqis from their rear. The five weeks of intensive air attacks had greatly demoralized the Iraqi front-line troops, causing whole sale desertions. Remaining front-line forces were quickly killed or taken prisoner with minimal coalition losses. "2 February 1991 I was awakened this morning by the noise of an enemy air raid. I ran and hid in a nearby trench. I had breakfast and afterwards something indescribable happened. Two enemy planes came toward us and began firing at us, in turn, with missiles, machine guns, and rockets. I was almost killed. Death was a yard away from me. The missiles, machine guns and rockets didn't let up. One of the rockets hit and pierced our shelter, which was pentrated by shrapnel. Over and over we said, "Allah, Allah, Allah." One tank burned and three other tanks belonging to 3rd Company, which we were with, were destroyed. That was a very bad experience. Time passed and we waited to die. The munitions dump of the 68th Tank Battalion exploded. A cannon shell fell on one of the soldiers' positions, but, thank God, no one was there. The soldiers were somewhere else. The attack lasted about 15 minutes, but it seemed like a year to me. I read chapters in the Qur'an. How hard it is to be killed by someone you don't know, you've never seen and, can't confront. He is in the sky and you're on the ground. Our ground residence is magnificent. After the air raid, I gave great thanks to God and joined some soldiers to ask how each of them was. While I was doing that, another air attack began. 2 February at 2000 hours." After establishing air superiority, coalition forces disabled Iraq's command and control centers, especially in Baghdad and Al Bashrah. This caused the communication to fail between Baghdad and the troops in the field. The next stage was to attack relentlessly Iraq's infantry, which was dug in along the Saudi-Kuwaiti border, and the elite 125,000 man Republican Guard in southeastern Iraq and Northern Kuwait. Iraq retaliated by using mobile launchers to fire Scud missiles at Saudi Arabia and Israel, a noncombatant coalition. The Untied States countered this threat with Patriot antimissile missiles, called also "Scudbusters, " and comando attacks on Scud launchers.
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Approximate Word count = 1860
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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